I said it. The very thing Tae-min was protecting him from but he pursued nonetheless.
Live Your Own Life will have to do a lot of good job convincing me to change my stance about Tae-min if they intend to go that route down the drain with Tae-ho competing for Chairmanship.

What will it take for him to see the gem in front of him though, even though that gem stopped thinking with her head and went straight for assault. The man doesn't even pine for Hyo-shim anymore so I don't know why she's directing her vex at her. I understand that Hyo-shim has a hand in how her husband is behaving towards her albeit unintentionally - Hyo-shim represents something that Tae-min doesn't see her representing or embodying. Still, it is no excuse. Do better!

I think this was the first time Mom didn't frustrate me - she was busy with her new business, bringing interesting ideas and trying to be independent. I actually may even start believing that she can succeed! 😁

Hyodo on the other hand... still tries to gold dig. 🙄 Security guards on him! 😁😁 He so far doesn't deserve uri hardworking Taehee.

It was sad to see uri hardworking Mirim give up on her dream even if she really has no talent and is better off as a lawyer. I wonder what it will do with Hyojun. Will it give him motivation to study for the bar exam and then join her at the law firm? Or will it give him the push to follow his talent and go back to directing?
(Or... we may go the one-night-stand-consequences route 👶😁)

I first cheered when TV Lady said enough, packed her suitcase and left. But she lost my support the moment she went to vent her anger and frustration to Hyoshim and slapped her (and made a scene at Hyoshim's workplace).
This whole divorce plan of Taemin puzzles me. Why did he get married then?

We reached the embezzlement trap on Taeho, but I'm sure Grandma warned him about the foundation and that they have a backup plan. Btw, that history of TV Dad from Grandma was quite interesting. And not what I would expect.

At the beginning of episode 34, when TH goes to hug HS several times in the apartment, she has a cringey expression on her face which continues when he commands her to follow his orders until they were married (didn’t last week she tell him she was not going to get married?) Then he calls HS during her work hours because he is needy (wants to hear her voice) and clingy (would not any rational woman runaway from him?)

A horrible thought occurred to me when SK told TH he was the only person who looks out for her. She offered him anything he wanted but he declined the information so as not to interfere with her marriage. But SK went inside which really infers she was waiting for TH and not TM. Is she planning to have an affair to get her baby? Luckily, that seems not part of the plan.

The succession to chairmanship coupled with inheritance tax is dumbfounding. SK law currently states that inheritance tax is due 60 days from the date of receipt. However, in large estates, it can be paid in installments over five years. As for TM, he would not have inherited anything from TH’s parents. He could have inherited shares from his grandfather or his parents could have gifted shares to him. In any event, selling subsidiaries to pay personal taxes is taking corporate assets for private gain - - - really, embezzlement.

SK whining to her father about her marital plight was another jarring change in her character and personality. Unless she was lighting the media bomb to come. SK sulky and crying behavior at home, throwing her ring and saying she is moving out may have been a weak attempt to get TM “to honor his marital duty” but he is steadfastly against it. SK and the power couple idea can be buried now.

The writer’s exaggeration on Taesan Group was laughable. Samsung, Korea’s largest company, is only worth $380 billion. It infers that Taesan is on par with Apple and Microsoft in sales, revenue and market value. If that is the case, the business politics is even more ridiculous. But Rubi bites on that hook harder than a starving blue fin tuna. And Tae Hee saying her mother sold “all the assets in her name” is another compounding illegality. And the claim of no inheritance is another false statement - - - SK law provides a statutory minimum for heirs even if there is a will that disinherits. It was all written to make Tae Hee look penniless so Hyo-do would stop gold digging and start working.

Mirim is now a former criminal defense and not a trademark attorney? The continuity in this show is a mess. And did I miss Mirim and Hyo-joon having drunken sex in the motel?

Rubi should be a prosecutor as she has some skills in getting TH to answer direct questions about her aunt. But I did like Rubi has the street smart, sour reaction to TH’s insistence that he will marry HS. She senses something is off with him.

Advisor Choi telling TH not to move against Taesan but he goes to the (former?) chief prosecutor shows the writer is at least some...

I came here to rant about this weekend, but @welh640 pretty much summed it all up - the corporate legal nonsense; Tae Ho continuing to be the man-child that he was groomed to be; the newly identified "daddy issues" (just in time for the real Dad to show up now that the actor has completed "Elegant Empire"); Grandmama's decision to return from the grave in order to "protect the children" and then failing to inform Tae Ho about why they need protection; Mi-rim's changed legal expertise from trademark to criminal law, etc. etc.

Finally - Su-kyung and Tae Min. I was hoping for better outcome, but if they were going to split, then glad she was the one to do it. But then the slap? What was the point?

In fact, what was the point of the marriage?

And then I realized my worst fear - some characters are simply nothing but pawns on this writer's chessboard. Why the marriage? I guess to remove TM from Hyo Shim's orbit/universe for a few episodes?? Why the slap? I guess so that TM has a reason to re-enter that orbit (based on previews). My-rim appears to be another "pawn" - never really part of any of the other stories or characters so whatever she does is simply to re-arrange the chess pieces. Might as well add Chairman Choi to the list, although he isn't a regular, he was destined to play some role at some point.

Okay, rant over because this weekend included some great direction/camera work. Hyo Seong kicking Tae Ho down the alley. Hyo Jun chasing Mi-rim's taxi down the hill. The Taesan internal investigators marching in and close-ups of removing/boxing up items. WIDE camera shots of Hyo Do getting kicked out of Taesan lobby - I can't recall any scenes like these in TRHC.

Which is why I continue to watch but my investment in the drama took a big nose-dive in value this weekend.

Rooftop Granny was the highlight. I loved how she ripped into TV CEO, though I would be skeptical about enlisting his help. Her calling the villa's people as pure was a little LOL. Doesn't she remember that Hyo-shim's mom lives there?

I'm so on-the-fence with Tae-ho. I think he needs to learn boundaries - calling Hyo-shim in the middle of work really annoyed me. He should have joined a different gym the moment he got together with Hyo-shim, though Hyo-shim is partially at fault there too. I do love how he didn't even break his pleasant expression when dealing with Rubi's questions. Man's like teflon. Hyo-shim liking Tae-ho because he was like the dad she never had was weird, though I guess I sort of get it. He is like the first person who really cared about her and would drop everything to make her feel better.

Some alien or ghost has possessed Hyo-shim's mom, who is suddenly all caring and being like "who hurt my baby girl?" and when for 30 episodes, she acted like Hyo-shim was some heartless bitch. The health smoothie idea seems pretty sound though.

Seeing Mirim give up was sad, but it seemed the most reasonable reaction. Even though she probably can't pursue a career in acting that will feed her, I do hope she can be in a supporting character in at least one thing that would get aired. Just so she can experience it once.

I hope someone runs Hyo-do with a car and gives him amnesia. He needs a total do-over. Is the drama seriously going to continue pairing this gold-digger with a smart, industrious girl, like Tae-hee? It's sickening that now he going to Tae-min to gold-dig there. As if Tae-min doesn't have enough problems.

Sook-kyung seems to exist to slap Hyo-shim and whine about how the man she knew was reluctant to marry her doesn't seem to want to do things like sleep with her and have sex with her.

Tae-min would need to buy a few subsidiary companies in order to legally become Chairman? Or sell a couple of subsidiaries to pay the Gift Tax? This drivel needs to stop. A totally false narrative damages the story. The false legal narrative continues with the statement that Tae-hui has been disinherited.

The first accurate statement of the law in this show came when his mother told Tae-min that Su-gyeong could divorce him for failing to sleep with her.

I was quite intrigued, however, with the conversation that Tae Ho had with our former Anchor Lady now the freshly minted new Mrs. Kang. She is literally offering to answer Tae-ho’s questions simply because he has been kind to her. Her father is now furious with Tae-min and his family (as he should be) but now Grandma has contacted him. It turns out that he is in her debt as he went to school on the scholarship that she provided to him and then built his broadcast empire after that- but Grandma also has proof that he established his company illegally (No explanation again though, beyond the fact that he used former Taesan employees and then abandoned them).

Anchor Lady has thrown her ring at Tae-min and moved out. Unfortunately, she blames the wrong person for this situation simply because she found the ring that Tae-min had bought for our FL and slaps her- it was truly satisfying to see UEE slap her back. We still have no rational explanation of how her now failed marriage would ever have resulted in a takeover of Taesan.

Su-gyeong decided to move out after she confronted Tae-min and he simply responded by starting to say “I’m Warning you…” He did not get to finish the sentence, but it did not matter. This may be the first time that I actually felt an urge to slug him. How could such a capable and intelligent man be so stupid.

I have to wonder who insisted the alleged threat of a takeover of Taesan be included in this drama. It is totally unneeded. In his conversation with Grandma, Chairman Choi provided us with a perfectly good reason for wanting to marry his daughter to Tae-min: It would be the way of permanently protecting him from his past misdeeds. With Su-gyeong as her granddaughter in law Grandma would never breath a word about it and Chairman Choi could sleep soundly at last.

Mi-rim has now been told that she should go back to being a lawyer (which she clearly has the talent for) and that she will not be going anywhere as an actress, even though it is her dream, because she does not have the talent for it (as we have all known since this drama began). But she and Hyo-jun have had a night of drunken passion- and we all know what comes of that. We saw Mi-rim give up on acting and be driven away to return to lawyering. Of course, we will see her again.

Ru-bi and Phillip have now met their future uncle Tae-ho and Ru-bi, to her credit, does not approve.

This week’s cliffhanger- the arrest of Tae-ho for embezzlement. We knew this was coming and that Hyo-shim’s Oppa would be dragged into it. BTW- did anyone notice that Mi-rim’s law specialty was switched to having been a criminal defense lawyer? Might that come in handy here? I agree with Unit that we may see her back in all of her legal glory.

I love that Tae Ho and his grandma are reunited. But fewl bad foe Hyoshim as everyone treats her differently now that her relationship with TaeHo is revealed.
Hyodo is still acting immature. Taemin needs to get his act straight. Taeho need to be smarter as he bid for the chairmanship.

I am still finding this show totally enjoyable with its current "full speed ahead" pacing. Obviously, for best enjoyment, one has to adjust one's expectations and realise that you are watching a 50 episode weekender. I'm accustomed to just "going with the flow" and switching my professional brain off in order to enjoy any movies or TV shows (necessary as a scientist).

The highlight was obviously Tae Ho and granny's reunion (kudos to both actors). I have no doubt that the viewers were not treated to the full conversation between them, and all will be revealed later.

Speaking of acting, I wish they had cast an actress capable of a bit more subtlety as the villain, rather than treating us to a screeching pantomime villain. She was similarly bad in Young Lady and Gentleman and I had to FF all her scenes.

As with all the main characters in this drama, none of them are without flaws, including the leads, and the point of a 50 episode drama, I presume, is to show their development. Although the analogy to "like having a dad" was a bit strange (was that a translation issue?), it was clear that she fell for Tae Ho because he sincerely cared for her and took the effort to understand her, something nobody else around her was doing. He is also at heart a kind, thoughtful, decent human being (even if outwardly less obviously so than Hyo Shim), as viewers can tell from his small interactions with the mole co-worker, ex-TV anchor lady, genuinely wanting to help orphans, Hyo Shim's mum...I mean, seriously, you need a lot of kindness and patience to put up with what Hyo Shim's mum threw at him and not run a mile. So despite their flaws, despite having many challenges to overcome, and despite having many things to learn, I do think Tae Ho and Hyo Shim are very good for each other, as the foundation of their relationship is genuine care, kindness and gratitude towards each other.

But it looks like I may have to sit through a few episodes of angst (make it short, writers) before the tables turn in favour of the main leads + granny.

That is what I hope also.

@unit, thanks for the highlights !

Well well well.
Here we are , Hyo-shim is fully prepared to do the Noble Idiot thing and throw away what she worked so hard for over 10 years rather than tell Tae-Ho about the conflict . Aigoo !

Tae-ho, obliviously suggests he just buy the gym. The gym owner is a creep.

What exactly is Tae-hee and Hyo-do’s relationship ? It appears as though they cohabitate. She still refers to him as ahjussi. 🤔
Hyo-do is a goofball. I hope he can visit Madam Jang in prison later .

Wow, Hyo-Jun actually seemed somewhat likable or at least less annoying. If Mi-ram does happen to become pregnant, the writer needs to get going on that storyline ASAP. 🤔

Soo-kyung showing up at the gym, behaving irrationally, as well as criminally. 🙄
Early on in the show Hyo-shim was kicking Hyo-do’s butt via martial arts ? I vaguely recall that. So, I think Hyo-shim would be on to this crazy lady having been subjected to her slaps and her rage fests.
I would liked to see Hyo-shim employ some kind of self-defense move to protect herself and not hurt Soo kyung but deflect her attack .
Begone woman ! Your chaebol status holds no power here !

With Granny Choi back amongst the living, I am so disappointed that TV reporter -nim hasn’t picked up on the buzz . Sounds like a scoop.
Aigoo. This show needs a do over of the script !

Bring on Ga-On’s mom already show.

I guess the show will bring the missing father back into
to the Lee’s life, though why exactly at this point in the tale ? Just another screwed up story line. lol.
Where is the chairman at ? Drunk ? The shoe shop ?
Aigoo.

I’ll tune in next week though ! Uee, fighting !

Whoohooo good for you Hyo-Shimi